Advancing Corrections Journal - Edition #9 - Management and Treatment of the Mentally Ill and Mentally Unwell in Corrections (ACJ9-A004)

Article 4: Mental Health In A Representative Cohort Of Prisoners In New Zealand Corrections-Analysis Of Severity Of Need And Ethnicity Differences (ACJ9-A004)

Authors

Dr. Nick Wilson

Research advisor/Clinical Psychologist

Nick Wilson, PhD., PG Dip. Psych. (Clinical) has been working as a Clinical Psychologist for the Department of Corrections for the last twenty years. His current substantive role is as Principal Advisor, Psychological Research working for the Office of the Chief Psychologist with responsibility for the provision of specialist training and research in the area of risk assessment and offender management. Nick has delivered specialised training in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, and the USA to psychologists and psychiatrists on the assessment of criminal psychopathy (PCL-R, PCL: SV and PCL-YV) and has lectured extensively on forensic risk assessment and treatment issues. He has carried out extensive research into the area of risk assessment with youth and adult offenders, with violent and sex offences, as well as the evaluation of treatment programmes delivered to offenders. His expertise in personality assessment lead to him developing the High Risk Personality Programme delivered in New Zealand maximum and high security prison settings as well as the Adult Sex Offender Treatment Programme delivered across prison specialist treatment programmes. Nick in recent years has been involved in the development of dynamic risk and protective asset assessment measures used by probation officers and case managers (DRAOR and SDAC-21) as well as improved suicide assessment in probation and prison settings using the C-SSRS.

Mr. Shaun Sullivan

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